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Last week I described why I decided to take a chance and try open badges in my college course, #ED216 (Literacy in the 21st Century). I promised to return with the “How” this week. What I have learned over the last few weeks in this course is that by and far, developing a badge policy and…

I often tell my students that good teaching means taking risks, tinkering, and taking on a challenge. It supports your professional growth and keeps you passionate about the work. This is the beginning of a story of a challenge I set for myself – using open badges in a college classroom. As I shared my…

If someone had told me two months ago that a MOOC would bring my family closer together I would have LOL’d at the idea. However, several weeks into my participation in the National Writing Project & Educator Innovator’s Connected Learning MOOC (#CLMOOC), I can tell you that “Connected Learning” has taken on an entirely new…

This summer I am participating in The National Writing Project and Educator Innovator‘s Making Learning Connected MOOC, or, as it is affectionately known, #CLMOOC. While it is called a MOOC, it is different than what we have traditionally come to know as a MOOC – the #CLMOOC is about making and sharing together in an openly networked way; there…

The full title of David Weinberger‘s treatise on knowledge in the networked society is: Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and The Smartest Person in the Room is the Room. They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case, you can…

Originally posted on developing writers: Sign ups are now open for Making Learning Connected 2014! See the FAQs and Calendar for more details. The educational framework known as Connected Learning. Links to National Writing Project and the YouMedia colleagues from the “Maker Jawn.” #CLMOOC on Twitter Educator Innovator Webinar

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About Kira

Rosemary & Walter Blankley Associate Professor of Education at Arcadia University. Associate Chair of Programs and Curricula for the School of Education. Author of "Transformative Teachers: Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World" (Harvard Ed Press 2017) and "The Networked Teacher" (Teachers College Press, 2011).